Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 00:19:10 -0500 From: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org> To: Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com> Cc: wes@softweyr.com, freebsd-standards@bostonradio.org Subject: Re: strerror_r() implementation Message-ID: <20011130001910.C23064@espresso.q9media.com> In-Reply-To: <200111300454.UAA06333@windsor.research.att.com>; from fenner@research.att.com on Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 08:54:46PM -0800 References: <20011125014216.A84711@espresso.q9media.com> <3C00A43B.9929E9C7@softweyr.com> <200111281854.KAA13574@windsor.research.att.com> <3C05BE3A.1DF1A539@softweyr.com> <200111300454.UAA06333@windsor.research.att.com>
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Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com> writes: > >Ah, I see the confusion. The size of ebuf in strerror doesn't need to > >be big enough to hold messages from sys_errlist, it only needs to be > >large enough to hold "Unknown error: " plus the length of a 64-bit > >number in ascii. > > Right. 40 was enough for this in rev 1.4; I dunno why it has to be > 55 now. I don't feel particularly strongly about the details of this, > though. Room for a 128-bit number "+ slop"? Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-standards" in the body of the message
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